Parents usually expect too much while raising their children. As a result, when it comes to discipline, most of them let temper flare out of control by executing physical punishment to their children. They believe bitter pills have wholesome sweet and they always in a panic that down to crime for youngsters is easy without pain tastes. Investigations showed that half of parents use punishment once or more, no matter their ethnicity, age, and socieconomic groups. However, despite the benefits it will bring, physical punishment is a hazard, which affects not only children, but also the parents themselves.
On the first place, punishment can exert a bad impact on children by experience of serious reprocessing, with its evident contribution to children’s mental illness. Several studies showed that most frequent physical punishment with maltreatment maybe lead to depression, juvenile crimes and even suicide. Thus, most countries have already passed laws banning disciplinary action that inflicts physical suffering on a child.
On the other hand, parents might also affect by their punishment behavior. When they lose them temper with their kids, they might feel irritated, sometimes even worse than children do. Moreover, the physical punishment, regardless its original intentions, has a negative impact on the bond between parents and children, on the account of frustrations, misunderstandings and even tears it will bring.
Taking all those factors into consideration, I would argue that law are not the key to a violence-free, psychologically healthy upbringing, communication is. While Parents are establishing a bridge with a child during dialogue and equally exchange, they will both profit from it. Remember, serious punishment add sorrow and pain to our life, on the contrary, communication is the only remedy for better family relationship.
